{"id":202159,"date":"2024-12-22T12:14:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T18:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/cognitive-flexibility-how-neural-variability-shapes-decision-making-in-different-brains"},"modified":"2024-12-22T12:14:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T18:14:44","slug":"cognitive-flexibility-how-neural-variability-shapes-decision-making-in-different-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/cognitive-flexibility-how-neural-variability-shapes-decision-making-in-different-brains","title":{"rendered":"Cognitive flexibility: How neural variability shapes decision-making in different brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cognitive-flexibility-how-neural-variability-shapes-decision-making-in-different-brains3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Research <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41586-024-08433-6\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature<\/i> has revealed that neural computations in different individuals can be implemented to solve the same decision-making tasks, even when the behavioral outcomes appear identical.<\/p>\n<p>Cognitive flexibility is the ability of a brain to adapt its response to the same <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/external+stimulus\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">external stimulus<\/a>, like light or sound, based on different contexts. For example, if someone calls your name in a crowded room, you must focus on the sound\u2019s location or the voice characteristics to identify the person. This flexibility in selecting and processing <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/relevant+information\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">relevant information<\/a> while ignoring irrelevant information is crucial for survival and effective interaction with our environment.<\/p>\n<p>While previously studied, the individual <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/variability\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">variability<\/a> in neural computations yielding the same outcomes is poorly understood and lacks a comprehensive framework. The researchers in the <i>Nature<\/i> study aimed to understand these mechanisms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research published in Nature has revealed that neural computations in different individuals can be implemented to solve the same decision-making tasks, even when the behavioral outcomes appear identical. Cognitive flexibility is the ability of a brain to adapt its response to the same external stimulus, like light or sound, based on different contexts. For example, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}